wasn't able to find any on-feet pics but https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FLYWNYQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I don't know personally, but this link has reviews for that one as well as the Pro (you'll have to sort out which reviews are for which ones though).
https://www.google.com/search?q=Breville+Fast+Slow+Cooker+review
From a cursory look at the few for the regular Fast-Slow version, it doesn't seem that one gets as good reviews as the Pro, and probably not the IP because at amazon (where there are over 10,000 reviews from users) even the average for all of those reviews is higher than that.
https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Pot-IP-DUO60-Multi-Functional-Pressure/dp/B00FLYWNYQ
The regular Fast Slow also appears to have a non-stick pot (which many users don't want, both for longevity and consumption safety) and also doesn't appear to have presets (and the time must be set by you separately for each item, and the heat levels will be constant).
Plus of course, that Fast Slow model is still much more expensive than the best-selling Instant Pot DUO60 7-in-1, and also won't have all the info, recipes, and groups online dedicated to it that the Instant Pots will.
could you add these things to your wishlist for me
You can use the pressure cooker like a rice cooker or steamer as well. I don't know what a good amazon price for rice is tho.
The Instant Pot hands-down.
It's the most popular, best-selling brand of electric pressure cooker, and has some features most other brands don't have...as one example, a stainless steel inner pot rather than non-stick-coated pot (no non-stick coating yet created will last forever since will eventually begin to come off into food or as larger flakes and then the pot will need to be replaced, plus some people feel no non-stick coating is as safe as not having one--and btw, stainless steel inner pots are still easy to clean since pressure cooking is a wet method so if ever necessary a bit of soaking and/or using BarKeepers Friend will be fine).
The "Best Review" of the T-Fal actually compares it to the Instant Pot (though lists only a few of the differences):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2EBY5C6K2OA8D/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B016RYKKL6
And you can get lots more info about the T-Fal from all its other customer reviews at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2EBY5C6K2OA8D/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B016RYKKL6
Compare that with the customer reviews of the (most common) IP at Amazon, the DUO60:
https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Pot-IP-DUO60-Multi-Functional-Pressure/dp/B00FLYWNYQ
We don't know which T-Fal you got though, but in general all the IP's are rated about as high as ratings go (and most of the low ratings are from people who were using it incorrectly, etc).
And the DUO60's are now all 7-in-1's too so will also make yogurt or congee and can also be used to ferment bread, tempeh, etc. (That's the IP model I've had for about 1 1/2 years.)
Also, there's much more info online for the IP specifically from the various Facebook groups for it (one of which is humongous, Instant Pot Community**) where people ask questions or give recipes and solutions for any concerns, etc, and there are also many-many recipes/etc online specifically for the IP.
I recommend saving up for an Instant Pot. They're $99, and extremely worth it. You can use it to slow cook, but it's so much more and better than a slow cooker in every regard, except straight price.
Osso Good Bone Broth: sign up for their emails, they offer a deal for 10-20$ off or free pouches almost ever week. I love to have a few in the freezer for when I can't make my own.
Thrive Market: So worth the membership price just for the time is cuts down off of my grocery shopping time alone, but the better prices and free gifts are pretty swell too. I particularly love to get my plantain chips, tuna, sardines, cassava flour, Fatworks fats, Native Forest Canned coconut milk, canned pumpkin and coconut wraps from them.
The Paleo Mom and Autoimmune Wellness are my favorite blog resources. They both have podcasts too.
Sustainable Dish is another good podcast for health topics and sustainable farming/grassfed meat info.
Instant Pot has saved my booty so many times when I didn't start a roast on time or when I need spaghetti squash in a pinch. The Instant Pot Cookbook is wonderful and was put together by Eileen Lard.
Meatified's Breakfast Slow Cooker Meatloaf is a favorite in our household. The free version on her site is not AIP, the AIP version is in her cookbook and is worth buying the cookbook for in my opinion. I got it at Costco for 12 bucks. There's also a chicken pumpkin curry recipe and a guacamole recipe I love in there too.
A deep freezer. Couldn't imagine doing AIP without one.
In the same vein, my monthly meat CSA (community shared agriculture). I get most of my meat once a month directly from the farmer and defrost as needed. Again this cuts down grocery shopping time, and I know exactly what my meat was fed.
Costco and Trader Joes are great resources for wild caught frozen fish.
I save and freeze all of my chicken bones in a bag in the freezer, and most of my veggie trimmings (ends of onions, carrots, leeks, zucchini etc) in another bag and make my own chicken stock. Just add bones and a few handfuls of frozen veggies and a splash of ACV to your stock pot, add just enough water to cover and simmer for 4 hours. I then freeze in ice cubes for use later. I've not bough stock in years because I eat a chicken at least once a week.
I buy a liver mix (chicken, beef, lamb) from my farmer for really cheap and again freeze them into ice cube trays. I add a few whenever I make ground meat dishes- you can't taste them and it's a great way to get some liver in your diet.
while rks ratios are WAY off for a rice cooker, i agree that water:rice water:beans ratios are key. it's also a shame you don't invest in an electric pressure cooker. not only do they cook rice well, but pressure is far superior for doing beans. this 11psi ss model goes on sale under $110 pretty often and 6qt is perfect for single/couple cooking. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FLYWNYQ what you do with the basket is boil the rice below (stupid amazon has it legs up which is upside down), then layer vegetables and a protein above to steam while the rice boils. see /r/pressurecooking for more ideas - but to repeat, if you plan to live on dry beans, do NOT buy a rice cooker as they do an inferior job of softening beans unless it's little nubs like lentils or split peas - those actually can be cooked along with your rice.
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So like in this recipe, you would saute the onions in the pan for 5 minutes (it acts like a saute pan with the lid off FYI, so you can do "one pot cooking" to minimize the mess!), then pressure-cook everything for 8 minutes, do a quick release, then add in the milk & cream and bring it to a boil for 5 minutes: (again in the same pot, using the saute function)
I usually recommend just getting the "7-in-1" 6-quart model, which usually goes for around $89 online. This model is the standard one that nearly every recipe online uses:
I also recommend getting an "Instant Pot accessory kit" (usually under $30), which have a bunch of great accessories that fit the pot perfectly. This one has a $5 off coupon:
The baby-food mold in that kit is commonly used for copycat Starbucks Egg Bites, which are like little omelets that you can freeze & microwave for a quick, high-protein breakfast! They come out really good & can be made with whole eggs, egg whites, a variety of cheeses, and a variety of mix-ins, such as spinach or ham cubes:
Also pick up a spare sealing ring. This fits inside the lid & is what helps to seal the pressure in. These are made out of silicone & unfortunately absorbs smells, so you want to have a couple rings, one for sweet & one for savory. One time I made an Indian dish, then made yogurt, and the yogurt smelled like curry lol:
The Instant Pot is great at making yogurt as well! You can do it the traditional way & boil it then let it incubate overnight, or use "ultra-pasteurized" milk using something called the "cold-start" method:
Also, if you want to leave it in Keep Warm mode, you can use it sort of like a Crockpot in low-temperature mode & buy the glass lid accessory so the top is easy to remove for people to self-serve from the pot. Which is also useful for popping popcorn!
Another thing you can do is what's called the "pot-in-pot" method, where you use a bowl inside of the pot for smaller portions. The pot comes with a wire rack called a trivet, so if you wanted to make say oatmeal, you'd add a cup of water, put the trivet in, get a dishwasher-safe (heat-proof) cereal bowl, add dry oatmeal & maybe some raisins to it, cover the oatmeal in the bowl with milk or water, then set it to 10 minutes, and voila! A single serving of oatmeal with zero babysitting required that comes out perfect every time! (or you can do the whole pot, if you're feeding your family!)
And that's just the tip of the iceberg! Which is why the Instant Pot has developed such a cult following:
This segues into a discussion of why having a good meal-planning system is important, because it's really easy to get overwhelmed with everything out there (and then not use the Instapot at ALL! because it can be fairly intimidating to start out with!! haha). The Instant Pot is basically a (1) multi-function machine, that (2) reduces the amount of active, hands-on labor & babysitting required to cook food, which is why its popularity has skyrocketed over the years.
Thus, having a good meal-planning system, coupled with a solid meal-prep approach to reduce how often you have to actually cook, and then combining that with a kitchen power-tool like the Instant Pot that brings both great results along with reduced labor, creates a win/win/win system for feeding ourselves & our families without having to face the daily barriers of figuring out what to eat!
Are you still looking? You might like to save a little more and invest in an all-in-one that does pressure cooking as well (/r/pressurecooking!), which is a bit like slow cooking on steroids. This one has a dishwasher safe pot (most lids can't be dishwasher'd but are easy to clean) and does timer delay etc, along with a bunch of other stuff.
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Most electric pressure cookers reach only 10-12 psi so that's just something that comes with the territory. Even those at sea level learn that it'll just take a few more minutes in electric pressure cookers to cook recipes that were written for stovetop pressure cookers (especially in the past before electrics became so good and more common).
I haven't read Kenji's article on that yet, but you'll find his articles (and his whole Serious Eats site) to be excellent for both science and taste (Kenji went to MIT).
I don't know about the Cuisinart you have, but the Instant Pots (all, I think, including mine**) have a Keep Warm function that kicks in when the food has been properly cooked (on the Preset modes, at least).
Also, most meats-with-connective-tissue that would be tough with short cooking times and/or high heat will just get more and more tender the longer they're cooked (at low temp) or pressure cooked, but some veggies and lean-meats can get overcooked at long pressure cooking times.
There are only a few things-to-know about using electric pressure cookers, but I'd suggest limiting your googling for recipes and info in the beginning to searching for those for "electric pressure cookers"...like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=recipes+"electric+pressure+cooker"
https://www.google.com/images?q=recipes+"electric+pressure+cooker"
Or start with something really simple like single potatoes/yams/etc:
https://www.google.com/images?q=recipes+potato+"electric+pressure+cooker"
...or cooking dry beans (only one step):
https://www.google.com/search?q=recipe+"electric+pressure+cooker"+"dry+beans"
https://www.google.com/images?q=recipe+"electric+pressure+cooker"+"dry+beans"
(and see what Kenji has to say about cooking beans from dry at Serious Eats too, which he later did sucessfullly with other kinds of beans as well:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/soaking-black-beans-faq.html)
** http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FLYWNYQ/ref=psdc_3117954011_t1_B000MPA044
If you want a good electric pressure cooker, you just might want to get the best selling one: Instant Pot DUO60 (7-in-1, or even 6-in-1 if you don't want to make yogurt or raise bread dough, etc).
At Amazon online, they'll be even cheaper than they are now on Black Friday--perhaps around $70 or so (but be sure and order early that day in case they run out)...also sold on Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Instant-Pot-Electric-Pressure-Stainless/dp/B00OP26T4K
https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Pot-IP-DUO60-Multi-Functional-Pressure/dp/B00FLYWNYQ
Then no problems.
Yes, that's called cooking PiP (pot-in-pot, pan-in-pot) and may be done for various situations (or anytime).
Since there are only 2 of you any of the 6 qt models would be plenty though (unless you like to entertain or "prep" large amounts then freeze, etc, etc). Personally I like the smaller size because the footprint and height will be less and the pot will be lighter-weight and smaller when cleaning or carrying (especially if not doing PiP).
The best-selling model of all time is the DUO60 and it's just a few dollars more (if it doesn't go on sale the rest of today like we all thought it would, again!):
https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Pot-Multi-Use-Programmable-Pressure/dp/B00FLYWNYQ
And the LUX line also has a 6 qt (as well as perhaps a few 5 qt units here and there) for less money but those are 6-in-1's rather than 7-in-1's so won't have the Yogurt mode (which can also be used to proof dough and a few other things), and won't have a Low power mode (not used that often), won't do some modes for as many hours as the DUO's, and won't have the built-in lid slots on the sides (tho I hear the lid can be stood up in the channel of the LUXes as well):
https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Pot-Multi-Use-Programmable-Stainless/dp/B01MFEBQH1 (this is also the latest "version" of the LUX 6 qt)
For more on PiP, check out my reply this morning to another person:
https://www.reddit.com/r/instantpot/comments/6mko8j/hurry_up_8_quart_duo_for_89_only_was_129_prime/dk31skq
So I didn't purchase it myself but my boyfriend is getting me an Instant Pot from Amazon for my birthday this Friday. I'm so excited, it's going to change my cooking life. I do a lot of meal prep and I just know it's going to make it go smoother.
I got this pressure cooker/slow cooker/rice cooker /yogurt maker for $ 69 : https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00FLYWNYQ
Instant Pot IP-DUO60 7-in-1 Multi-Functional Pressure Cooker, 6Qt/1000W https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FLYWNYQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_59oHxbE2DZ945
If anyone is on the Specific Carb Diet (SCD), this thing is great for making the 24 hour yogurt!
Buy an instapot pressure cooker and get some dried beans of all varieties. Pair the beans with rice and you have a complete protein! I am in romantic love with my pressure cooker. I'd recommend making chili in it right off the bat. (You'll need diced tomatoes, beans, onion, chipotle peppers and chili or taco seasoning. Split pea soup is also stupid easy and very affordable.
You can also get a seed sprouter and the seeds for it for some produce in your diet. I also like sprouting mungbeans. And it's getting a little late in the season to plant I think but consider starting a tomato plant.
If we are going to be talking food prep, then Instant Pot. Seriously, this thing changed my life.